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The federal minister for IT inaugurated an Artificial Intelligence 101 module at the Civil Services Academy, integrating AI training into the civil services curriculum. Addressing a special CSS batch at the academy, the minister said the initiative was part of the government’s Digital Nation Vision and aligned with the Digital Nation Pakistan Act, which she … Read more
. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro gives a press statement at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil November 1, 2022. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo BRASILIA: Brazil’s far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro was declared healthy on Wednesday after a battery of tests to check him for head injuries following a fall in prison, where he is serving 27 years … Read more
KARACHI: A new audio series about South Asian music and Islamic sound arts is aiming to change the way we think about our artistic heritage. ‘Sounding Board’ features readings of essays by influential scholars, musicologists, poets and critics from the 19th and 20th centuries, exploring themes of identity, inheritance and imagination. These essays, which cover … Read more
KP chief minister set to meet party leaders, lawyers and Sindh CM in Karachi. K-P Chief Minister Sohail Afridi at Islamabad International Airport Photo: Express Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi departed on Friday for a three-day visit to Sindh, where he is scheduled to take part in political activities, hold meetings and attend a … Read more
There’s also dry thunderstorms forecast across Victoria and southern New South Wales Australia heatwave. Photo: AFP SYDNEY: Millions of Australians were Thursday warned to prepare for a stifling heatwave stoking the risk of “catastrophic” bushfires across swathes of the country. Temperatures are forecast to soar past 40C in parts of southeast Australia, fueling some of … Read more
The deployment in the south aims to cement the state’s monopoly on bearing weapons BEIRUT: Lebanon’s army said Thursday that it had completed the first phase of its plan to disarm Hezbollah in south Lebanon, while Israel called the efforts encouraging but “far from sufficient”. Under heavy US pressure and amid fears of expanded Israeli … Read more
This unpredictable documentary follows a man and his family as they wait for news of his daughter and her husband, who were kidnapped in the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.
Hyderabad and Sialkot are the two new teams added to the HBL PSL franchises. Photo: X/@thePSLt20 ISLAMABAD: History was made on Thursday as the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) entered a decisive new phase, with two new franchises sold for a combined Rs3.6 billion in a record-breaking auction, confirming the league’s expansion to eight teams … Read more
Imposes a countrywide internet blackout as its largest wave of unrest in three years continues to grow A nationwide internet blackout was reported in Iran on Thursday, internet monitoring group NetBlocks said, as protests over economic hardships continued around the country. No further information on the internet outage was immediately available. Witnesses in the capital … Read more
Myanmar’s junta created a capital to withstand an invasion. Now, the military struggles to project an image of control over a crumbling nation.